2015: Don’t use insurgency, oil price to judge Jonathan –APGA BoT member

Nigerians have been urged not to sup­port the call by some people us­ing the fall in oil price and insurgency in the northern part of the country to cam­paign against President Goodluck Jonathan in next year’s election, saying such move is cheap, anti-progres­sive and undemocratic.

We have no hands in recent bombings –FG

The Federal Govern­ment has debunked insinuations that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is responsible for the spate of bombings that have been rocking some parts of the country in re­cent times.

Anambra attracts $1.65bn investments as Oduah heads Anambra airport project

In keeping with his avowed commitment to achieve increased investment in­flow to the state, Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, said the state has at­tracted about $1.65 billion investment from investors since March 17, 2014 when the new administration was inaugurated.

Flying Eagles’ coaches get 10 months pay

It was a huge festive cheer for coaches of the Nigeria U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, as they were finally paid their salaries for the past 10 months.
A top Nigeria Football Federa­tion (NFF) official informed Afri­canFootball.com the coaches had  received their long-awaited sala­ries.

Chelsea, Man United title chances hampered by draws

Leaders, Chelsea could only pick up a point as they were held by a resilient Southampton at St Mary’s Stadium. Sadio Mane gave the Saints the lead when he pounced on John Terry’s hesitancy in defence before lifting his shot past Thibaut Courtois. Eden Hazard equalised seconds before the interval when he drifted in from the left before firing in low. Saints finished with 10 men when Morgan Schneiderlin was shown a second yel­low card for a foul on Cesc Fabregas.

Eaglets cry out over Kano house gifts again

World Cup-win­ning Golden Eaglets stars, Musa Muhammed and Zaharadeen Bello have again cried out that they are yet to receive the houses promised them by the Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso a year ago.

Abu Dhabi friendly: Eagles’ players get December 30 deadline

Super Eagles tech­nical crew current­ly led by assistant coach, Dan Amokachi have sounded a note of warning to all invited home based stars for the now altered January 12 and 17 friendlies against Cote D’Ivoire and Su­dan, that they must re­port to the Bolton White Apartment, Zone 7, Abuja on Tuesday, De­cember 30, 2014. Ac­cording to a release by the team’s Media Of­ficer, Ben Alaiya, he stated that the warning was made by the team administrator, Dayo En­ebi Achor, who said he was making the clarifi­cations as some of the players were still think­ing that the team will converge last Sunday, December 28. “We have done a release from the NFF to that effect but we must again re-emphasis that the team will come together by January 30th and all players and offi­cials must take note”, he said.